Feb. 14, 2014

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Staff Report

EASTVILLE — An Accomack County native living in Harrisonburg has been charged with the sexual assault of a woman last October in a Cherrystone Campground bath house.

Caleb Ryan Parks, 20, is charged with object sexual penetration and two counts of strangulation, said Northampton County Sheriff David L. Doughty Jr. Parks is being held in the Eastern Shore Regional Jail with no bond, Doughty said.

Doughty declined to immediately release Parks’ booking photo.

The sheriff said a man wearing a tan Halloween mask with “large, saggy eyes” sexually assaulted a 25-year-old woman in a bath house located near the general store at Cherrystone.­

The incident was reported at 6:33 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 27, of last year. It happened at the conclusion of a month of Halloween-themed weekends.

In November, the sheriff’s office released a composite drawing of a “person of interest” in the case, described as a white male in his late teens to early 20s, approximately 5-foot-8-inches or 5-foot-9-inches in height, with a slender build, facial acne and “dirty blond” or medium blond hair.

At the time of the incident, the suspect was last seen wearing a long-sleeved tan shirt, light tan cargo-style pants and skateboard-type shoes, or “Vans,” Doughty said.

Parks’ Facebook page listed him as a 2011 graduate of Nandua High School.

In July 2012, Parks was convicted of a misdemeanor after a Sept. 28, 2011, crash that killed an Onancock man riding a scooter on Bayside Road in Lee Mont.

Parks had originally been charged with felony hit-and-run, but the charge was amended after Parks told police he thought he had struck a deer with his vehicle on a dark, rainy night, according to a newspaper article.­

The crash happened as he was returning home to Parksley from Eastern Shore Community College, where he was enrolled.­